This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Indian Geography > Earth > Volcanoes – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Volcanoes Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Positive effects of Volcanic eruption: A) Can provide opportunities for generating geothermal energy. B) Provide valuable nutrients for the soil. C) Provide dramatic scenery. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 2. During a volcanic eruption, what covers the ground? A) Magma. B) Fire. C) Ash. D) Lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ash. 3. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is a flat shield-shaped volcano that was formed by A) Runny lava. B) A cloud. C) Clay. D) Rock piles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Runny lava. 4. What is a hot spot? A) An area where you can get wireless internet. B) A place on your skin that burns. C) An area in the interior of a plate where hot magma escapes Earth's crust. D) A popular place to hang out. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An area in the interior of a plate where hot magma escapes Earth's crust. 5. What do earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building have in common? A) They are measured by seismographs. B) They cause major disasters. C) They occur suddenly. D) They result from plate motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) They result from plate motion. 6. Which of the following terms best describes a volcano that is dead and unlikely to erupt again? A) Shield volcano. B) Caldera. C) Dormant volcano. D) Extinct volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Extinct volcano. 7. A plate moving over a stationary pool of magma A) Volcano. B) Lava. C) Island Chain. D) Hot spot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hot spot. 8. Which of these volcanic particulates is the largest in size? A) Bomb. B) Block. C) Lapilli. D) Ash. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Block. 9. A ..... is the name of the hole at the top of the volcano's vent A) CRATER. B) CHAMBER. C) FLOW. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) CRATER. 10. What provides the force that causes magma to erupt to the surface? A) Gravity in the lithosphere. B) The density of the magma. C) Dissolved gases trapped in the magma. D) The silica in the magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dissolved gases trapped in the magma. 11. What is Earth's crust broken into? A) Shields. B) Dishes. C) Egg shells. D) Plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plates. 12. Composite Volcanoes have ..... A) Explosive and nonexplosive eruptions. B) No eruptions. C) Broad, short sides. D) Explosive eruptions. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Explosive and nonexplosive eruptions. 13. Mitigation includes all of the following EXCEPT A) Equipment to clear debris. B) Public education. C) Land zoning. D) Collecting historical data. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Equipment to clear debris. 14. An eruption resulting from the release of large quantities of accumulated magmatic gas, which lifts fine ash with great force high into the air, forming voluminous cauliflower clouds. A) Phreatomagmatic. B) Pelean. C) Phreatic. D) Vulcanian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vulcanian. 15. The eruptions on Neptune's moon Triton involve A) Sulfur. B) Salt water. C) Liquid nitrogen. D) Molten lava similar to Earth's volcanoes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liquid nitrogen. 16. What is a mountain through which molten lava and gases erupt called? A) Volcano. B) Ring of Fire Mountain. C) Mountain. D) Continental drift. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcano. 17. Which volcano is the LEAST explosive? A) Shield. B) Composite. C) Machu Picchu. D) Cinder Cone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shield. 18. Hot spots result in the formation of what? A) The Hawaiian Islands. B) Iceland. C) Pangea. D) Ocean ridges. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Hawaiian Islands. 19. How does a volcano form? A) Ice from glaciers build up. B) Rocks build up around a mountain. C) Lava pushes up through an existing mountain. D) A lot of lava flows out at one spot and forms a mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A lot of lava flows out at one spot and forms a mountain. 20. A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle A) Magma. B) Lava. C) Minerals. D) Rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Magma. 21. An opening in Earth's crust A) Volcano. B) Lava. C) Island Chain. D) Hot Spot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Volcano. 22. Volcanoes that have recently erupted are known as: A) What's a volcano?. B) Dormant Volcano. C) Active Volcano. D) Extinct Volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Active Volcano. 23. Where did the volcano erupt? A) United States. B) Iceland. C) Swtizerland. D) Africa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Iceland. 24. What is it called when vibrations on Earth's surface cause a break in Earth's surface? A) Earthquakes. B) Landslides. C) Volcanic Eruptions. D) Floods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earthquakes. 25. When lava cools it becomes a what? A) Magma. B) Volcano. C) Solid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Solid. 26. What type of boundary is associated with the Ring of Fire? A) Convergent. B) Divergent. C) Transform. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Convergent. 27. This is one of the instruments geologists use to monitor and detect changes in elevation and tilt caused by moving magma? A) Tiltmeter. B) Anemometer. C) Psychrometer. D) Thermometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tiltmeter. 28. What type of volcano is the most explosive? A) Cinder Cone. B) Composite. C) Shield. D) Mona Loa. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Composite. 29. A broad volcano with gently sloping sides is a ..... A) Cinder Cone. B) Composite. C) Shield. D) Fire Fountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shield. 30. A steep cone-shaped hill or mountain A) Cinder cone volcano. B) Composite volcano. C) Shield volcano. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cinder cone volcano. 31. Which of the following analogyis correct about volcanic eruptions and its cause? A) Phreatic:hot rock andmagma. B) Phreatomagmatic:magmaand water. C) Phreatic:hot rock andpressure. D) Phreatomagmatic:pressure and water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phreatomagmatic:magmaand water. 32. Volcanoes are classified in several ways. Based on their record of eruption, how are they classified? A) Summit, slope, and Base. B) Active and Inactive. C) Shield, Cinder, and Composite. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Active and Inactive. 33. What type of volcano is Mt. St. Helens? A) Shield. B) Active. C) Cinder cone. D) Composite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Composite. 34. Which planet has shield volcanoes and lava flows similiar to those on Earth? A) Neptune. B) Jupiter. C) Venus. D) Mercury. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Venus. 35. An area where material from deep within Earth's mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma. A) Rift zone. B) Hot soup. C) Hot spot. D) Hot mamma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hot spot. 36. The particles produced in volcanic eruptions are called ..... A) Laccoliths. B) Calderas. C) Pyroclastic material. D) Volcanic stocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pyroclastic material. 37. Volcano that posess very little threat of eruption. A) Active volcano. B) Dormant volcano. C) Extinct volcano. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extinct volcano. 38. Where do volcanoes usually form? A) Within 10 miles of the ocean. B) Between Earth's mantle and core. C) At fault lines between tectonic plates. D) Within the boundaries of the United States. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At fault lines between tectonic plates. 39. Why does magma form at divergent boundaries? A) The temperature is increased. B) The pressure is increased. C) Water lowers the melting temperature of the mantle rock. D) Lowering the pressure lowers the melting point of the mantle rock. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lowering the pressure lowers the melting point of the mantle rock. 40. A liquid with high viscosity A) Is thin and flows easily. B) Is dense and flows slowly. C) Has particles with very little friction between them. D) Is pahoehoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Is dense and flows slowly. 41. The formation of the Hawaiian Islands is one example of ..... A) Volcanoes forming along plate boundaries. B) Volcanic activity forming over a hot spot. C) Continental drift. D) The Ring of Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volcanic activity forming over a hot spot. 42. Factors that change volcanic eruptions ..... A) Time of day and time of year. B) The number of side vents and craters a volcano has. C) The type of gas and level of viscosity. D) Moana and Maui. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The type of gas and level of viscosity. 43. The eruption of Mount Etna in Italy in 2002 is an example of what volcanic eruption? A) Vulcanian. B) Phreatic. C) Strombolian. D) Plinian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Strombolian. 44. If a volcano's magma is high in silica, the volcano will A) Erupt explosively. B) Remain dormant. C) Erupt quietly. D) Produce dark-colored lava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Erupt explosively. 45. What is the spread of lava as it pours out of a vent? A) Crater. B) Pipe. C) Magma chamber. D) Lava flow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lava flow. 46. A wide, gently sloping mountain made of layers of lava and formed by quiet eruptions. A) Strato-volcano. B) Shield volcano. C) Cinder cone. D) Composite volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shield volcano. 47. Which population is in the most danger for damage caused by an earthquake? A) A population living near an active fault zone. B) A population living on an island. C) A population living at a high elevation in the mountains. D) A population living in a tropical climate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A population living near an active fault zone. 48. The main hazard from a quiet volcanic eruption is ..... A) Geysers. B) Lava Flows. C) Volcanic gases. D) Pyroclastic Flows. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lava Flows. 49. Which of the following terms are used to describe a volcano that is has not recently erupted, but may in the future? (aka sleeping volcano) A) Dormant volcano. B) Composite volcano. C) Active volcano. D) Extinct volcano. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dormant volcano. 50. What part of the volcano allows magma to flow to the surface? A) Magma Chamber. B) Crater. C) Vent. D) Pipe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pipe. 51. An earthquake occurs when forces and stress along a fault build up, causing the rock to break at a weak point along the fault and release energy. How does this energy move through the Earth? A) As seismic waves. B) As light radiation. C) As heat waves. D) As sound vibrations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) As seismic waves. 52. What provides the force that causes a volcano to become explosive? A) Extreme heat. B) Mafic flows. C) Magma density. D) Dissolved gases trapped in magma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dissolved gases trapped in magma. 53. Once magma reaches the Earth's surface it is called ..... A) Lava. B) Rock. C) Silica. D) Molten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lava. 54. How fast a lava is able to flow is based on its A) Amount. B) Location. C) Weight. D) Viscosity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Viscosity. 55. What means "ground or land" A) Ocean. B) Volcano. C) Border. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Earth. 56. The biggest volcano is located ..... A) On Mars. B) On Earth. C) On Jupiter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) On Mars. 57. A pyroclastic flow typically occurs during a(n) ..... eruption. A) Quiet. B) Offensive. C) Explosive. D) Effusive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Explosive. 58. An active volcano will ..... A) Probably will not erupt again. B) Most likely erupt again. C) Collpase on itself. D) Never erupt again. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Most likely erupt again. 59. What type of lava has a low viscosity, mafic, iron rich and produces quiet eruptions? A) Rhyolitic Lava. B) Andesitic Lava. C) Basaltic Lava. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Basaltic Lava. 60. This type of volcano is not steep but very wide A) Composite. B) Cinder cone. C) Shield. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shield. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesIndian Geography QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesVolcanoes Quiz 1Volcanoes Quiz 2Volcanoes Quiz 3Volcanoes Quiz 4Volcanoes Quiz 5Volcanoes Quiz 7Volcanoes Quiz 8Volcanoes Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books